AFRICA
African medicine:
tradition and beliefs Reports of
killings to obtain body parts for “muti” (the Zulu word
for medicine) brought African beliefs into the spotlight, including
practices to do with healing. Indeed, many African healers use herbs
that have been used to obtain drugs for Western medicine. In this article,
the second in a series on traditional systems of medicine, David Okpako
gives his interpretation of traditional African medicine
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AMERICA
Obtaining a US pharmacist
licence — a personal experience When
the opportunity to live in the US arose, UK-trained hospital pharmacist,
Sara Barrow, was keen to take it. This article sets
out
her experiences of obtaining a licence to practise pharmacy in
the state of Washington
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Pharmaceutical care in
Minneapolis — initial impressions The author describes a short visit to Minneapolis, America to learn about pharmaceutical care there. The emphasis on pharmacists taking responsibility
for
patients'
drug related needs and being accountable for those needs concurs with the clinical governance
agenda
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AUSTRALIA
What can the NHS learn from health care provision in other countries? Cathal
Gallagher and Nathalie Bailey-Flitter examine the provision of prescription-only
medicines in Australia and
Ireland and attempt to assess which elements of these provisions would improve
health care resource allocation in the NHS
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Melbourne 2006: setting the standard for future
Commonwealth
Games Mark Stuart, Bill Horsfall and Mel
Blachford describe
how pharmacy services were organised during the recent Commonwealth
Games that took place in Melbourne, Australia
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Registering in Australia How to get working in Oz
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Pharmacy in Australia Is the grass greener in Australia? In this article, Pam Mason, PhD, MRPharmS, describes Australian pharmacy and health care
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A working holiday in Australia Many UK pharmacists and technicians take working holidays in Australia.
This article, based mainly on the experience in New South Wales, gives a brief overview of the process
of applying for a visa, pharmacist registration, grading systems and finding work placements in hospitals
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Changing pharmacy practice: the Australian experience
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Thomas Gaydon — a pioneering chemist In this article, David Moore and his wife Vivianne describe
the life of Thomas Gaydon, an apothecary who arrived in Childers, Queensland, Australia in 1894. A museum
in Childers, which is a memorial to his pioneering work, remains today. Readers travelling to Australia
later this year to attend the International Pharmaceutical Federation congress, may wish to pay it a
visit
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BERMUDA
Pharmacy in Bermuda — its legislation, influences and employment opportunities
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BRAZIL
Examples of pharmacy in Brazil In
2006 the congress of the International Pharmaceutical Federation took place in Salvador, Brazil. Pamela Mason attended as a reporter for The Journal, and in this article, she describes her visit to two of the city's pharmacies
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CANADA
Canadian adventure How to be a licensed pharmacist in Canada
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CAYMAN ISLANDS
Getting clinical in the Cayman Islands In
2000, Christina Short and her husband crated up their possessions, rented out
their home and moved to Grand Cayman, where she took up the post of clinical
pharmacist for the government health service, joining a team of 11 pharmacists,
five technicians and two assistants. In this article, she describes working in
the “Jewel of the Caribbean”
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COSTA RICA
Costa Rica — where medicine-taking depends
on divine intervention
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EGYPT
 Pharaohs and the first prescriptions Throughout
history, literary records credited the Greeks as being the originators of pharmacy.
Equally meticulous in their recordings were the ancient Egyptians, but not until
Champollion, after Young, deciphered the Rosetta Stone in 1822 were scholars
able to understand what they wrote. In this article, Jackie Campbell describes
the pharmaceutical skills of the ancient Egyptians
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ESTONIA
Pharmacy in Estonia
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FINLAND
Pharmacy in Finland
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GERMANY
Complementary medicine in Germany In this
eighth article in a series on complementary
medicine, Edzard Ernst compares the
German attitude with the approach in the UK
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A visit to a German pre-war hospital Once,
in the not so distant past, the infamous Berlin wall ran menacingly through the
city of Potsdam. Now that "east has
met west" in re-unified Germany, how is hospital pharmacy re-adjusting to
the times? Pamela Mason visited
a hospital in Potsdam
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Pharmaceutical care — the German experience
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Integrated care in Germany
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GHANA
Hospital pharmacy in Ghana
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Reflections on health care in Ghana
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Herbal practitioners and pharmacists in Ghana In
this article, the authors describe a visit to Ghana and the interface between pharmacy
and herbal practice in the country
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GUERNSEY
Discovering hospital pharmacy
in Guernsey The pharmaceutical world of the Channel Islands has much in common with the UK, but the differences
are surprising
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INDIA
Challenges for pharmacists in India Before returning to Cardiff University to complete her pharmacy degree, Nicola Husain spent three months working in a hospital pharmacy in India. In this article, she describes her experience
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Out of Gujarat This article is based on a diary kept by the author while he worked
in Western India on a polio immunisation campaign
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INDONESIA
The development of clinical
pharmacy in Indonesia This article describes the pioneering work of two British pharmacists
in developing clinical pharmacy teaching and a drug information centre in Indonesia. Future
plans include the establishment of a centre for pharmacy postgraduate education and a revamping
of the undergraduate curriculum to promote clinical skills while maintaining a healthy emphasis
on pharmaceutical science
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An Indonesian experience
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IRAQ
Iraqi pharmacists contend with violence, murder and uncertainty … Pharmacy
colleges in Iraq face a shortage of academic staff, as many opt to leave
the country, rather than face an uncertain future. Pamela Mason contacted
Iraqi pharmacist, Ayad Ali, who spoke about the conditions faced by pharmacists
in Baghdad and beyond
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… but in northern Iraq the future looks brighter Iraqi
pharmacists have reasons to be cheerful, according to Kamaran Ghareeb,
whose recent visit to Iraq has left him feeling optimistic about the
future
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December 2007
Pharmaceutical chaos: e-mails from an academic
pharmacist in Iraq Elections for a transitional national assembly
are to be held in Iraq on 30 January. Pamela Mason corresponds with Ayad Ali, a pharmacist in Iraq, who shares his experiences and reflections on the impact of the Iraqi war on pharmacists and pharmaceutical services
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Pharmacy in Baghdad This article describes a visit to Baghdad, where the author,
who has family in Iraq, found that despite ongoing difficulties pharmacy practice, including clinical
pharmacy, and pharmacy education was thriving
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IRELAND
What can the NHS learn from health care provision in other countries? Cathal
Gallagher and Nathalie Bailey-Flitter examine the provision of prescription-only
medicines in Australia and
Ireland and attempt to assess which elements
of these provisions would improve
health care resource allocation in the NHS
PDF (90K)
ISRAEL
Living life on the edge (working in an Israeli hospital) A
visit to Jerusalem afforded the editor of Hospital Pharmacist the opportunity to compare and
contrast the practice
of hospital pharmacy in Israel with that in the UK
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LITHUANIA
The Lithuanian museum of pharmacy: tales from
behind the iron curtain It is not only
the artefacts in museums that have interesting histories. Museums themselves — especially those that have survived wars and major regime changes — have
tales to tell. In this article, Anatolijus Kostiukevicius and Tauras
Mekas describe events that have affected the Museum of the History of
Lithuanian Medicine and Pharmacy in Kaunas, Lithuania
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A hospital pharmacy in Lithuania Pharmacist Pamela Mason recently visited
Lithuania and gained an insight into hospital pharmacy within the country
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Pharmacy in Lithuania: emerging from years of Soviet rule
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MACEDONIA
Pharmacy in Macedonia
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MALAYSIA
Nottingham/Malaysia: the challenges of
developing a split campus MPharm The University of Nottingham has the first purpose-built
British university campus outside the UK. Last year, 40 students began
studying at the campus in Malaysia for an MPharm course split between
there and the UK. Dawn Connelly looks at the challenges of running the
course
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MALAWI
A new beginning: pharmacy in Malawi Brian Lockwood
describes how stakeholders are trying to set up a badly needed school
of pharmacy in Malawi
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NETHERLANDS
Delivering pharmaceutical care in the
Netherlands: practice and challenges
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Pharmaceutical care:
doing it the Dutch way Pamela Mason travelled to the Netherlands to speak to two pharmaceutical
care
providers there
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NEW ZEALAND
Split success: New
Zealand's story Two years
ago, the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand split, creating separate
organisations for regulation and representation. With the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society of Great Britain facing calls for a separation of functions,
Clare Bellingham finds out if the NZ split has been a success
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Learning from New
Zealand pharmacy The parallels between the challenges
faced by pharmacy in New Zealand and Britain are extraordinary. Bernard
McKone, chairman of the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand (Inc),
tells Clare Bellingham about recent events and the impact on pharmacists
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Hospital pharmacy in New Zealand New Zealand rugby players are reputedly the best in the world,
but what about the pharmacists? The author describes her role as a pharmacist in an Auckland
teaching hospital and contrasts it with the equivalent position in the UK
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On being a pharmacy student in New Zealand An interview with students from overseas
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NORTHERN IRELAND
Managing your medicines — a pharmacy service in Northern
Ireland
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SAUDI ARABIA
A taste of pharmacy in Saudi Arabia Sultan Dajani was recently invited to the seventh International Saudi Pharmaceutical Conference to talk about the latest developments in UK pharmacy, including prescribing, repeat dispensing and self care. In this article, he gives his impressions of Saudi pharmacy
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SIBERIA
A return ticket to Siberia Imagine a general medical practice moving over 12,000 miles in
six weeks. Travelling just three-and-a-half thousand of those miles in a period of eight days,
I am one of 175 patients in that practice as we journey by private steam-hauled train from St
Petersburg, Russia, into Siberia
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SINGAPORE
Pharmacy in Singapore — comparing experiences in the UK and Asia After four years of working as a clinical pharmacist at a teaching hospital in London, Victoria Coleman left the UK to work in Singapore. In this article she describes the Singaporean health system, the requirements for registering as a pharmacist and her experiences of working in the intensive care unit of the National Heart Centre in Singapore
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Pharmacy
in Singapore A student exchange
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SOUTH AFRICA
Impact of new South African legislation on pharmacy practice
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TANZANIA
Charity work in Africa Developing a dispensary in rural Tanzania
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UGANDA
Pharmacy practice overseas: bringing medicines
information to Uganda Stephen Ward has been working as a hospital pharmacist in Kampala
for the past six months. Here he describes what he hopes to achieve
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Hospital pharmacy in Uganda Angela
Fell worked as a VSO pharmacist in a 300-bed university teaching hospital
in Mbara, Uganda from March 2000 to March 2002. This article describes
her experiences in “the pearl of Africa”
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Gold, golf and pharmacy in the Gulf Having
recently revisited the country of his birth, Sultan Dajani tells of developments in the United Arab Emirates
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ZIMBABWE
A summer in Zimbabwe; trading places … Working overseas can be a rewarding
experience, and for many people means receiving far more than they can ever give. Here, the author
describes one
such experience in Zimbabwe on an IPSF student exchange
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The challenge of developing paediatric pharmacy services in Zimbabwe
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The
Neema Project (Tanzania)
Asante Sana! The Neema project is a village concept project
orchestrated by the International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation (IPSF). It was initiated,
and is run entirely, by students. The aim is to provide a sustainable improvement to the villagers'
lives and to enable them to take a part in their own health care, by providing a dispensary
and health care to villagers in Kiromo, Tanzania
IPSF: thinking globally, acting locally
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The Neema story so far A village dispensary in Tanzania
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Update
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